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Mr. Stingmon, Sir ......

With all due respect (sort of) ...........


CAT POOP??????????????????

I've heard of the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg, but you are apparantly the only person in the history of the world that has a cat that poops Arc flashlights!
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What a cat! Since there's not much product cost involved, I guess you can undersell Peter and make a fortune.

BTW, I've been thinking about getting a Lightwave 4000. You don't happen to have a dog that poops one of those, do you?
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Sorry ... couldn't resist. You set yourself up for that one. ... and I STILL like the "natural" the best!
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All in fun,
 
to tell you the truth, I would prefer black or grey but that being said, I still want the natural colored one anyway. I want all three colors of finish.
 
Jon, just to clarify. The color we are offering the LE in is "natural" or what some people call "transparent anodize". Basically, a greenish gray. We had to settle on one color and natural got the most requests (besides, I like it too).

Mad Scientist, the link above pointed to a site with Russian (?). I did not see any artwork.

Btw, there seems to be a lot of artists out there. My inbox has many logos now. Thanks! How about a competition? Here are the details:

The logo:
1. Logo must be black and white only
2. Design must suitable for use on business cards, product packaging, web sites, t-shirts, brochures, etc. This means it must be like a raster graphic and be scalable without looking bad. Notice how logos like the AT&T globe scale very well for all their promotions.
3. The words "Arc Flashlights LLC" must be used and legible even when scaled down to a business card.

The theme:
1. Arc means the brilliant flash of light that results from an arc welder or an arc lamp. When I first saw the bluish light of an LED it reminded me of an arc lamp. The flash of a laser can also be used. "Arc" also can mean "A Really Cool flashlight".
2. Avoid designs that might look like other types of light sources like suns, flags of china, stars, etc.

The competition:
1. The timeframe is now until the end of this month (September).
2. The winner will be chosen with input from CPF members and Arc staff with the final decision being mine.
3. Artwork must be emailed to me at [email protected] .
4. All artwork submitted may be posted to these forums or used in any other way. Only the winner recieves a prize.
5. We have several contracted artists also working on this logo. The contest entries must be superior to them as well. If they are not, there will be no winner for the contest and we will not use the contest artwork in our literature.
6. The prize will be an opportunity for future contracts, $200 worth of Arc flashlights of your choice, and CPF fame.
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Peter Gransee
 
Quick question. Just so that I will have a better idea to compare the Type III finish Arc by, which type of finish does a Mag-Lite use? Type II, Type III or something completely different? Please excuse the question if it has been asked previously.
 
which type of finish does a Mag-Lite use? Type II, Type III or something completely different?

It`s Type-II I think.

If you own a "Millenium Grey" hard anodised SureFire light, that`s the "natural" Level-III hard anodised Arc colour, from what I`ve been able to deduce. And it`s very hard wearing indeed!


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I did understand that the natural finish is what will be produced. Looks like the finish on some of my SureFires. I am just hoping that one day the other two colors might be available as well.
 
The casings for the Limited Edition are at the anodizers right now while the special rank LEDs have been ordered and should arrive any day. The parts should come together this weekend and ship out on Monday. It appears that all of the first run is either sold out or very close to it.

On a completely different note (one for the search engines). I put an Arc-AAA and a popular squeeze light in the microwave because I heard that microwaves could improve the efficiency of an LED. It took about 1 second to permanently fry the squeeze light's LED but the Arc-AAA kept working fine. I found out later that the type of LED affected by microwaves is the organic type so that explains why the LEDs did not get brighter.

At any rate, I guess this means that the Arc-AAA, because of it's metal housing, can withstand some EMP (electromagnetic pulse). Definitely not ground zero at a nuke but if your still standing, your light will probably still be working.

Probably useless info for most, but might be handy to know if you work around utility substations, high power transmitters (RADAR, TV, microwave), super colliders, nuclear power plants, etc.
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Peter
 
Just a word of caution to anyone that wishes to mimic the microwave test done by Gransee. Any metal objects put into a microwave runs the risk of burning out the microwave's emitter. At the very least it can mess it up to the point that it won't heat food evenly. Just thought I would add that before people started ruining their microwaves trying to get that little extra boost from their LEDs.
 
Fun with microwaves. And grapes.

Take a green grape. Slice it in half but leave just a sliver of skin keeping the two halves together. Place both halves flat-side down in the middle of the microwave. Take care not to sever that sliver of a skin keeping the two halves together. Nuke for 10 seconds or less. Watch the fireworks.

DISCLAIMER!: Your burnt down house should be fixed by your insurance company. Not by suing me.
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We now return you back to your regularly scheduled flashlight discussion.
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Update on Limited Edition Arc-AAA's:

Our S-ranks arrived today but they where the wrong color tint. I called our rep and he verified that we had specified the B1 color tint on our order so it must have been their shipping that screwed it up. We got the B2S rank instead. He is overnighting the correct rank to us but this is going to delay our shipment to you. We do have about 60-70 B1S ranks already from our last order and we will send those out as a partial for web orders on Monday but the bulk of the orders will have to wait until the rush shipment comes in. We will probally ship the remaining (most orders) Limited Editions by Wednesday.

We apologize for the delay.

Peter Gransee

Btw, the turquioses came in today as well. These are actually a brighter rank than our normal turquoises. All distributors will have these shortly.
 
My - Drop me an email and I can explain what is going on at the moment.
 
Gransee, got a couple of questions for you. Do you think that you will be offering other hard finsh colors on the Arc-AAA line in the future and possibly hard finish in more led colors? Also, will the company that does your finishing do items from individuals? I have a few aluminum items that I would like hard coated if possible. If they do work for individuals, I would like to know how to contact them.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JonSidneyB:
Gransee, got a couple of questions for you. Do you think that you will be offering other hard finsh colors on the Arc-AAA line in the future and possibly hard finish in more led colors? Also, will the company that does your finishing do items from individuals? I have a few aluminum items that I would like hard coated if possible. If they do work for individuals, I would like to know how to contact them.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Jon, send me an email and I will forward their contact information on to you.

As far as future colors, that is certainly doable. I posted a couple of Arc-AAA's in red finish a while back but I didn't get any requests for them so I put the colors on the back burner. When we do a color, we have to meet a fairly high minimum lot amount otherwise they are not cost effective. For this reason, we won't add a color unless there are more than a few requests.

Peter Gransee
 
Update:

The first run of the Arc-AAA LE (Limited Edition) has shipped. I am suprised at the interest for this model. We are currently out of stock and should have some more in about 3 weeks. If you want to get this model, place an order with your favorite distributor (or from our website) so we can guage how many we need.

All the distributors now have the version 2.2 of the Arc-AAA standard (type II black finish). This version adds a redundant ground to the PCB to improve electrical and heat grounding. Another change we made was to reduce the key loop cross section to make it easier for the assemblers to get the split rings installed (this should improve the QC around that area). We also made an internal change to the PCB to further improve QC. The LE has these improvements as well.

The Arc-LS is coming along. We changed the alloy we are going to use from 2024 (aircraft aluminum) to a different alloy we are not revealing right now. The new alloy has a higher strength and provides for smoother threads. The new alloy has already been ordered, shipped and arrived. The machine is being setup later this week to start the run.

We ran a test run of the production PCB's to make sure there where no bugs. This was a good idea because we decided to changed the layout slightly to facilitate manufacturing. The final production boards where ordered last Friday and are being produced right now. The test run was done with tin-clad boards to reduce their cost but the production boards are the more expensive "Hard Gold" (Cobalt Gold) clad.

As part of our testing regime and to train the assemblers, we built a couple of complete production PCB's. The electrical consistancy between the boards was suprising (a good thing). We also experimented with some ideas on how to improve their efficiency and found the circuit is running quite well already. Turns out the prototype units perform pretty close to how the production units do electrically.

A lot more has been done with the LS than what I have conveyed so far. Mostly having to do with setting up QC procedures and baselines, manufacturing steps, etc. We have also made a couple of minor improvements to the design since the prototypes. This flashlight is really starting to come together!

Peter Gransee
 
Man... looks like although I just bought 2 Arc-AAA, I will have to get a third... (If I could I will trade in my current Arc-AAAs in a heart-beat!)

Nonetheless, as I just placed an order for the LE Arc-AAA, I was also wondering when the LS is scheduled to ship. You mentioned the AAA LE won't be back in stock for 3 weeks, and if the LS will be release shortly after that I would like to have the LE AAA ship together with the LS, saving a few shipping bucks...
 
Are all previous turquios sold out? How will I know if I get the brighter rank? Are all future turquios AAA's the brighter rank or just a limited number?
I have a green now and love it but as you can see I would be interested in an extra bright turquois some time in the future, TIA.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gransee:
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Btw, the turquioses came in today as well. These are actually a brighter rank than our normal turquoises. All distributors will have these shortly.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
 
Gransee, has there been any interest by other users for hard coated grey and or black Arc-AAA's. Would be interested in these if they ever become available. Would love to be able to have matching Arc-AAA's and Arc-LS's in both natural and grey or black.
 
I've decided to wait on buying an Arc AAA until I can get it with a the higher ranking brightness turquoise LED and type III HA. Hopefully something like this will become a standard offering eventually.
 
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